Washington State

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Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGLO 1974 NO. 42 >

RCW 28A.58.310 does authorize school board members to be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in attending regular or special school board meetings, whether such meetings are in the neighborhood where the school board member lives or at any other place.

AGLO 1975 NO. 44 >

(1) The state superintendent of public instruction may adopt a regulation pursuant to RCW 28A.58.115 defining the term "associated student body funds" in order to identify those moneys of an associated student body which are subject to school district budget laws and other state laws relating to school district funds, including, RCW 43.09.240 and RCW 28A.59.110. (2) The state superintendent of public instruction may also adopt a regulation under RCW 28A.58.115 authorizing school districts to establish one or more ASB petty cash funds into which limited amounts of ASB funds could be transferred from time to time from the school district treasury by warrants made payable to the order of the principal of the school involved as custodian of such fund.

AGO 1961 NO. 48 >

The board of directors of a school district is not legally authorized to withhold transmission of a student's transcript to another public school in the state of Washington because of the failure of the student to pay his obligations for fines, lost books, etc., before withdrawal.

AGO 1963 NO. 48 >

(1) The proceeds of the payment a public utility district must make to a school district under RCW 54.28.080 are to be placed in the appropriate bond redemption fund of the school district. (2) Same :  The state superintendent of public instruction does not have the authority to consider such payment by a public utility district to a school district as a district asset before determining the district's equalization status under RCW 28.41.080.

AGLO 1974 NO. 48 >

An intermediate school district may not contract with local school districts within its boundaries to establish and operate a special education program for handicapped children on behalf of those local districts, although it may provide support services to the district in connection with such programs.

AGLO 1973 NO. 49 >

Under RCW 28A.67.900, a school district may grant to a teacher a one year leave of absence, unpaid, when the teacher's position is not being terminated, and at the same time hire a replacement teacher for that person, with the express agreement that the replacement will resign at the end of the year to allow the district to meet its obligation to the original teacher to reassign him in his old position which the district would have agreed to prior to the taking of the unpaid leave of absence.

AGO 1961 NO. 49 >

None of the provisions of chapter 198, Laws of 1961, and chapter 20, Laws of 1961, Ex. Sess., authorizing "community colleges" applies to any school district presently operating an extended secondary program (so-called junior colleges) which does not elect to bring its program within the new legislation.

AGO 1957 NO. 49 >

It is within the discretion of the directors of first class school districts to grant a leave of absence or contract in the future with a teacher.

AGO 1961 NO. 50 >

Under the constitution and statutes of this state the retained bonded indebtedness of school districts which consolidate must be considered in computing the bonding capacity of the new (consolidated) district.

AGO 1957 NO. 51 >

(1) If an order adjusting assets and liabilities of school districts affected by a transfer of territory is entered after March 1 of a given year, the order may properly transfer to the district to which the territory is transferred, a sum of money equivalent to the money raised by tax levies for the ensuing school year on property within the territory transferred.  (Subject to limitations)  (2) If money is transferred from one district to another by reason of a transfer of territory money transferred from the general fund, the building fund and the bond redemption fund must be credited to the general fund, building fund and bond redemption fund, respectively, of the receiving district. (3) An order transferring territory from one school district to another entered after March 1 of a given year cannot be given a retroactive effect so as to circumvent RCW 84.08.160. (4) After an order transferring territory and adjusting assets and liabilities has been entered, it may not be reconsidered and modified.